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Charlie Donlea

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in Chicago, The United States

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Suspense, Thriller, Crime

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September 2014

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Charlie Donlea is the USA TODAY and #1 Internationally bestselling author of SUMMIT LAKE, THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN, DON'T BELIEVE IT, SOME CHOOSE DARKNESS, THE SUICIDE HOUSE, TWENTY YEARS LATER, and THOSE EMPTY EYES. His eighth thriller, LONG TIME GONE, explores the science of forensic genealogy and will be released in June 2024.

His books have been translated into twenty languages across nearly forty countries. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two children.

He spends a part of each year fishing with his father in the far reaches of Canada, where the roads end and lakes are accessible only by floatplane. These majestic trips to “God’s Country” inspired the setting for his first novel, Summit Lake.

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Average rating: 4.2 · 296,181 ratings · 23,039 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Twenty Years Later 4.23 avg rating — 101,728 ratings — published 2021 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Was Taken 4.21 avg rating — 64,464 ratings — published 2017 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Believe It 4.17 avg rating — 43,838 ratings — published 2018 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summit Lake 4.10 avg rating — 33,489 ratings — published 2016 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Empty Eyes 4.21 avg rating — 25,975 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 13,832 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suicide House (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 12,186 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Years Later: Sneak Peek 4.24 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Time Gone 4.49 avg rating — 152 ratings — expected publication 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Empty Eyes: Sneak Peek 4.31 avg rating — 104 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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BEFORE I GO

As many Goodreads fans know, I wrote a novel under the pen name Brian Charles.

BEFORE I GO is a love story with a twist, and is very different from the edgy thrillers I usually writer (hence the pen name).

It's been described as THE NOTEBOOK meets THE SHACK, and is set in Chicago during the Holidays.

WARNING: It will make you cry, but it will also make you laugh and fill you you hope this Holiday Read more of this blog post »

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“No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

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“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

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“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

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Polls

February Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books move onto final poll

The Berry Pickers

by Amanda Peters

9 votes, 31.0%

None of This Is True

by Lisa Jewell

9 votes, 31.0%

Those Empty Eyes

by Charlie Donlea

4 votes, 13.8%

Betty

by Tiffany McDaniel

4 votes, 13.8%

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

2 votes, 6.9%

I Have Some Questions for You

by Rebecca Makkai

1 vote, 3.4%

Stealing

by Margaret Verble

0 votes, 0.0%

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

by Laura Pearson

0 votes, 0.0%

Valentine

by Elizabeth Wetmore

0 votes, 0.0%

Practice Makes Perfect

by Sarah Adams

0 votes, 0.0%

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